The New Yorker
Role of a Lifetime
Why Sarah Jessica Parker keeps playing Carrie Bradshaw.
10+ min |
June 26, 2023
The New Yorker
The Pandemic Generation
Remote school was devastating for many kids. How can they get back on track?
10+ min |
June 26, 2023
The New Yorker
READING BODY LANGUAGE LIKE THE EXPERTS
We can understand so much about W people are communicating by simply paying attention to their physical cues. Let's say that you're walking down the street and pass a guy who raises his arm in the air, then swings a knife at you. Body-language-wise, he wants to stab you.
3 min |
June 26, 2023
The New Yorker
Status in flux
For two years, no one travelled. Countries closed their borders to other countries that had closed their borders first.
10+ min |
June 26, 2023
The New Yorker
LONDON CALLING
\"Operation Mincemeat,\" \"Guys and Dolls,\" and \"The Motive and the Cue.\"
5 min |
June 26, 2023
The New Yorker
NOW YOU SEE IT
The curious allure of the heist.
10+ min |
June 26, 2023
The New Yorker
OUT OF PLACE
Megan Fernandes's map of desire.
5 min |
June 26, 2023
The New Yorker
NOWHERESVILLE
\"Asteroid City\" and \"Maggie Moore(s).\"
6 min |
June 26, 2023
The New Yorker
SHOW OF SUPPORT
Is the Army Tactical Bra ready for deployment?
10+ min |
June 26, 2023
The New Yorker
BITTER PILL
Dying patients wanted access to a new drug of uncertain benefit. But hasty approval comes at a cost.
10+ min |
June 26, 2023
Reason magazine
Ben Smith's One Neat Trick for Going Viral
The Semafor editor and former BuzzFeed News editor in chief on the online media explosion of the 2000s
10+ min |
August/September 2023
Archaeology
An Elegant Enigma
The luxurious possessions of a seventeenth-century woman continue to intrigue researchers a decade after they were retrieved from a shipwreck
7 min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
Ancient Egyptian Astrology
For centuries, layers of soot have coated the ceilings and columns in the entrance hall of Egypt's Temple of Esna. Now, an Egyptian-German team of researchers, led by Hisham El-Leithy of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and Christian Leitz of the University of Tübingen, is restoring the temple's vibrant painted reliefs to their original brilliance.
1 min |
July/August 2023
The New Yorker
LIVES IN THE BALANCE
Why do \"dowry deaths\" persist?
10+ min |
June 19, 2023
The New Yorker
THE STORY OF US
The startling intimacy of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.
6 min |
June 19, 2023
The New Yorker
SONIC SIGNATURES
The unique sound worlds of Salvatore Sciarrino and Kaija Saariaho.
5 min |
June 19, 2023
The New Yorker
MORTAL COIL
Loving and letting go in Lorrie Moore's new novel.
9 min |
June 19, 2023
The New Yorker
DANCE OF DEATH
“The Comeuppance,” by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
6 min |
June 19, 2023
The New Yorker
THAT WAS AWKWARD
Pilvi Takala and the art of excruciation.
10+ min |
June 19, 2023
The New Yorker
A PARENTS' GUIDE TO CAMPUS TOURS
Welcome, parents! We are delighted that you have chosen to tour our campus with your offspring today.
3 min |
June 19, 2023
The New Yorker
BORDERLINE CHAOS
America’s broken immigration system has spawned a national fight, but Congress lacks the will to fix it.
10+ min |
June 19, 2023
The New Yorker
COMEBACKER
Daniel Bard overcame mysterious control problems to resume his career. Then the problems returned.
10+ min |
June 19, 2023
Archaeology
HYBRID HOARD
A hoard of silver and gold items buried in the Netherlands 800 years ago-possibly for safekeeping during a time of war-was recovered by a licensed metal detectorist.
1 min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
A NEW DAY FOR THE ANCESTORS' MOUNDS
In fall 2007, Glenna Wallace, chief of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, visited the Octagon Earthworks in the central Ohio city of Newark while attending a lecture series at the Ohio State University in nearby Columbus.
3 min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
UPDATE - TEMPLE TIMES TWO
A team led by archaeologist Jessica Ortiz Zevallos has returned to the Temple of the Painted Pillars at the site of Pañamarca in northwestern Peru, where they have discovered new well-preserved, brightly colored paintings.
1 min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
BULLISH ON THE STORM GOD
In southern Turkey's Amuq Valley, a curious one-inch-tall lead figurine unearthed at a rural Bronze Age site is giving archaeologists a glimpse of how villagers living around 2000 B.C. responded to a period marked by increasing drought.
1 min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
VIKING SUPPORT ANIMALS
The warriors of the Viking Great Army who campaigned in Britain from A.D. 865 to 878 worshipped gods often associated with animal companions, such as Odin and his eight-legged horse Sleipnir.
1 min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
Inside a Magnificent Celtic Tomb
New investigations of an Iron Age burial in France reveal the source of one woman's exceptional power
10 min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
DEFENDING THE CANYONLANDS
Rare shields from the American Southwest are a legacy of a turbulent time in Native history
8 min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
AFRICA'S MERCHANT KINGS
The early Christian kingdom of Aksum was at the heart of a great maritime trading network
10+ min |